Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-09-07
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ANOTHER effort is to be made next ses-
sion of congress to get some action in the
way Of encouragement for the wine in
dustry of this country. Reports from
California show that the wine crop of the
present year is going to be something as
tonishing. Work upon the making OF
wines " California is just begun. There
are ut present 4, ,264 wine growers In the
State, and an area of 5000 acres in
bearing, estimated at value of s60,000,-
900. Work is given to over 10000 people
in the vim yards and the coopering, bot
Ting and box making departments. The
total vintage for 1887 will sum up l6,700,-
600 gallons, distributed in the following
counties: Napa, 100000, Almeda and
Contra Costa, 100000; Santa Clara,
1000, 900; Santa Cruz, 1,OO0,000, Fresno,
100000; San Joaquin, 1000, 900; South
ern California, 100000; Northern Cali
fornia, 100000; small interior counties
combined, 100000. Together with the
surplus of 1886, there will be at the close
OF the vintage, 2l,0OO,OO0 gallons of wine
in the State and over 100000 gallons
will be made into brandy.
A SOFIA telegram states that the elect
ions for members Of the sobanje are fixed
for the 9th inst. Prince Ferdinand has
forbidden Bulgarian officers to act as
newspaper correspondents. The French
consul general here has left this city.
The German crown prince has gone
from England to the Tyrol, accompanied
by DR.. Mackenzie.
THE Republican State convention of
Massachusetts is called to meet at fremont
Temple, Boston, September %. :,
REPREsENTATIvE MILLS, of Texas, is
reported as saying that eff Randall does
not repent before congress meets, and SOL
emnly engage to be Democrat for the
fu ure, he should be left among the Re-
publicans in the organization of the
house."
The Mexico Monitor Republican
charges that there is a we'll formed plot
among the Catholic clergy to destroy re-
ligious liberty in Mexico by re-enacting
there the scenes of st. Bartholomew's
day in France.
A MISSISSIPPI politician named Oglesby
has sued the telegraph company for $4,000
damages, on account of the failure of an
operator to forward dispatches which might
have affected nominations pending in
convention lately held at fernando.
A HUNDRED masked men took Charles
Coleman, a negro, from jlil at Flemings-
burg, Kentucky, and hanged him. He was
identified as the perpetrator of criminal
outrage on young white woman.
The Kentucky Furniture Manufacturing
company, at Louisville, has failed for
$5Q,000.
The four Apache Indian scouts recently
tried at Tucson, A. r., by military court
martial for shooting the Chief of Scouts
Sieber, have been sent to San Diego bar
racks pending approval OF the sentence.
The other twelve Indians engaged in the
outbreak will be turned over to the civil
autho tiles for trial.
The land department has restored to
public entry the indemnity lands of the
Atlantic and Pacific road branch from Van
Buren,, Arkansas, westward, and also on
the part of the main line in Missouri. The
department has also issued orders to hasten
the issue of patents to settlers, and pro-
hlbit the filing away of suspended cases,
requiring clerks to promptly report facts
to the bureau chiefs for examination.
A STRIKE Of brakemen on the Louis-
vile and Nashville railroad at Brming-
ham, Alabama, is expected. The move
ment will probably extend to the whole
line.
AUGUST E. WILDE, dealer in German
books at Cincinnati, has assigned, with liza
bilities amounting to $4,000.
In the six months allowed for the re.
demption of the trade dollars at New York,
3,942,417 of them were taken at the sub
treasury.